Two people killed, 40 injured by an explosion in Syria’s Homs

24.05.2017, Syria.

Two people were killed and 40 people were wounded by a terrorist attack in  Syria’s Homs, RIA Novosti news agency states citing a well-informed source on May 23.

A car bomb exploded near the electric utilities company`s building in the Al-Zahra quarter. „According to received preliminary data, two people were killed and 40 people were wounded as a result of the terrorist attack in Homs“, states the source of the agency.

The source also reports that Syrian soldiers destroyed a car bomb with a suicide bomber inside at the approaches to the checkpoint in the southern Damascus suburb today. One other car bomb was intercepted and defused.

Earlier, more than 40 people were killed as a result of a  series of suicide bombing attacks in Homs on February 23, 2017, Jabhat al-Nusra (organization banned in Russia) took the responsibility for act of terrorism.

* The original of the picture is by Bo yaser, license CC BY SA 2.0.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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